AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Full Schedule

17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome - Welcome - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers

Angie Jones

VP, DX, Agentic AI Foundation

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem.

Angie is an international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:00 - 09:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

09:10 CEST

Keynote: Getting to Stateless MCP: In Production - Shaun Smith, Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face

Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

The latest MCP Specification introduces one of the largest changes to the protocol since launch: a stateless transport.

At Hugging Face we use MCP as infrastructure for Agents, Interactive and Inference workloads.

In this session we will:
- Summarize the MCP Transport story to date
- Use production analytics from Hugging Face's MCP infrastructure to track migration metrics and success
- Explore new opportunities for Client, Server and Gateway implementations offered by the new transport features.
- Share lessons learned from implementing the stateless transport for Clients and Servers

Speakers

Shaun Smith

Open Source Agents / MCP, Hugging Face

Shaun leads Open Source/MCP at Hugging Face, and is an MCP Steering Committee member serving as a Community Moderator and Transports Working Group. He is also the author of `fast-agent` - one of the few clients with comprehensive protocol support and diagnostic capabilities.

Friday September 18, 2026 09:10 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

09:25 CEST

Keynote to be Announced

Friday September 18, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Friday September 18, 2026 09:25 - 09:35 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

09:35 CEST

Keynote: Agents as Actors: Harnessing the Power of Agentic Infrastructure - Idit Levine, Founder & CEO, Solo.io & Keith Babo, Chief Product Officer, Solo.io

Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Harnessed agents have become the dominant interaction and runtime pattern for agentic AI. Claude Code, Codex, and a fast-growing field of open source harnesses integrate models with MCP tools, skills, and plugins. These harnesses provide sandboxed execution, scoped environment access, and human-in-the-loop controls on the desktop. The industry's next shift is already underway: moving harnessed agents from the desktop onto shared infrastructure, where security, observability, and governance are consistent across every agent interaction. In this talk, we will explore how open source infrastructure can deliver secure, scalable harnessed agents beyond the desktop.

Speakers

Idit Levine

Founder & CEO, Solo.io

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of Solo.io, where she is dedicated to simplifying agentic AI and empowering organizations to embrace cloud-native technologies. With a strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, Idit is passionate about transforming complex... Read More →

Keith Babo

Chief Product Officer, Solo.io

Keith Babo is the Chief Product Officer at Solo.io, where he leads product strategy and execution, enabling enterprises to build and scale the next generation of cloud-native and agentic infrastructure for AI-driven applications. Prior to Solo.io, Keith held leadership roles in product... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:35 - 09:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

09:50 CEST

Keynote: State of the Software Factory - Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Friday September 18, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers

Dexter Horthy

CEO and Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Dex is CEO and co-founder at HumanLayer, building an agentic IDE and collaboration platform that helps teams solve hard problems in complex codebases without devolving into slop. Dex coined the term context engineering in April 2025, has keynoted two AI Engineer conferences, and his... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

10:20 CEST

Agentic AI and Hybrid Architecture - Redefining 100+ Applications at Scale - Pradheepa V, adidas AG

Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

At adidas Europe Market Tech, a lean team of architects and engineers are making a big difference, transforming 100+ applications by embedding AI agents into everyday workflows. We leverage AI with clear purpose to shape a new operating model to drive end-to-end efficiency and productivity at enterprise level.

In this session, we share our transformation journey, challenges we addressed and its impact on business, people & process. On the technical stack, we will enlighten you on:
– Production proven patterns for running AI tools in parallel, speedy deployment-ready applications, architecture reasoning and how we are accelerating our path to realising our north star.
– How we benefit from a hybrid AI architecture: cloud models for high-value reasoning, paired with locally hosted LLMs for implementation. How we balance cost, latency and efficiency at scale.
– What way architecture agents enable continuous, scalable visibility across complex application landscapes - turning static data into meaningful insights.

Ultimately, the way “Through sport, we have the power to change lives”, we believe “Through AI, we have the power to change the tech landscape to stay future-ready”

Speakers

Pradheepa V

Europe Market Tech Architecture Lead, adidas AG

Pradheepa Vijayaraghavan is a solution architect and engineering leader at adidas Germany, with 21+ years of international experience across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. She has led mission-critical platforms in e-commerce, FinTech, automotive, and enterprise technology... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 10:20 - 10:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Enterprise Adoption in Practice

10:55 CEST

From "Works on My Prompt" To Production SLOs: Building Agent Observability - Manik Khandelwal, Microsoft

Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

hen we shipped an AI agent powered by Cosmos DB's MCP server internally at Microsoft, it passed every test we threw at it—until real users found creative ways to break it. The agent would silently degrade: returning plausible-but-wrong query results, calling tools in inefficient loops, or burning through token budgets without completing tasks. Traditional monitoring showed green dashboards while users filed complaints. We needed observability designed for agents.

This talk presents the observability and evaluation stack I built to make agent failures visible, measurable, and catchable before users notice—combining OpenTelemetry instrumentation, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and automated regression gates in CI/CD.

Speakers

Manik Khandelwal

Senior Software engineer, Microsoft

Manik Khandelwal is an Engineer at Microsoft and a core maintainer of the Azure Cosmos DB Node.js SDK. He builds tools that make modern apps more scalable and intelligent—using AI, real-time data, and JavaScript.

Friday September 18, 2026 10:55 - 11:20 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Agentic Engineering

11:30 CEST

Governance You Can Run: Checkable Properties for Production Agents - Seshu Tolety, Siemens

Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Most agent governance lives in documents nobody can enforce. The agent ships, the policy sits in a wiki, and no one can answer the question that matters in production: is this running system compliant right now?
This talk presents governance built the other way around, as properties you can check on a live agent system rather than promises on a slide. We decompose any agentic system into a small three-object model, define properties that are individually testable against a running deployment, and rank failure modes into the handful of Tier-1 risks that actually cause incidents. Regulatory mappings (EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR) fall out as a consequence of satisfying those properties, not as the starting point.
You leave with a vendor-neutral framework you can apply to your own agents the same week, independent of stack or model provider.

Speakers

Seshu Tolety

Director - Agentic AI, Siemens

Visionary technology leader | 20+ years engineering transformation at global scale.

Architect of high-performing teams, cloud platforms, IoT, and Agentic AI strategies. I turn legacy systems into resilient delivery engines and engineering cultures into innovation powerhouses.

N... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Enterprise Adoption in Practice

12:05 CEST

When Agents Run Healthcare: Building Reliable Agentic Systems in Highly Regulated Environments - Janosch Woschitz, BARMER

Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

The public statutory health insurance system in Germany faces a dual challenge: demographic change is creating a shortage of skilled professionals while operational pressure continues to rise due to an aging population. Healthcare organisations must therefore automate high-volume processes without compromising reliability, governance, or trust.

This session presents BARMER’s journey from governed data and analytics platforms to production-oriented agentic systems supporting real operational workflows. Rather than focusing on isolated chatbots or copilots, it explores how agentic systems can be embedded into core enterprise processes in highly regulated environments.

The talk highlights key design patterns including workflow orchestration, agent runtime separation, observability, and human-in-the-loop escalation. It also demonstrates why many early agent architectures fail under regulatory constraints and what changes are required to meet enterprise standards for compliance, auditability, and resilience.

Speakers

Janosch Woschitz

Senior AI Architect, BARMER

Janosch Woschitz is a Senior AI Architect at BARMER’s AI innovation unit, BARMER KI, where he builds scalable AI/ML platforms and production-grade agentic systems for healthcare. With a background in software engineering, distributed systems, and enterprise AI architecture, he has... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Enterprise Adoption in Practice

12:40 CEST

Stateless Agents, Stateful Worlds: Designing for Interruption - Arul Kumaran, Luracast / Portel

Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Anthropic just announced MCP is going stateless. Most agent frameworks assume long-running, uninterrupted sessions. Real deployments face forced interruptions every hour: rate limits, auth refreshes, network partitions, process restarts, the laptop lid closing. When a session dies mid-task, most agents start over. That is not a model problem. It is a runtime design problem.

This talk covers the patterns that make agents resumable: idempotent tool calls that can safely re-execute, checkpoint-first execution that captures decisions before side effects, explicit continuation tokens that let a new session pick up an interrupted task, and the specific primitives a TypeScript runtime on Cloudflare Workers exposes to make all of this cheap. Every pattern shown is running in production on Photon, an open-source agentic tool runtime deployed to edge infrastructure.

Attendees leave with a concrete checklist: five changes to their agent architecture that make it survive the real world, not just the happy path.

Speakers

Arul Kumaran

Founder, Luracast / Portel

Arul Kumaran builds developer infrastructure for the agentic era. He created Photon, a runtime that compiles TypeScript into CLI, web app, and MCP-compatible agent tools simultaneously, and NCP (Natural Context Provider), a meta-MCP unifying 50+ tools behind 2-3 interfaces - cutting... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 12:40 - 13:05 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Building Reliable Agent Systems

13:15 CEST

Agent-Smith: Never Send a Human To Do a Machine’s Job - Glenn ten Cate, The Linux Foundation & Jorge Carvalho, Nedap

Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Most AI security agents are wrappers around fixed scripts. Agent-Smith takes a different approach: reusable skills encode security methodology, while the model determines how to investigate, chain tools, validate findings, and select its next action.

This session presents the architecture and lessons behind Agent-Smith, an open-source, MCP-enabled autonomous penetration-testing agent spanning web, cloud, Active Directory, source-code review, threat modeling, and AI red teaming and more. We will examine MCP tool exposure, methodology-as-code, autonomous skill chaining, model portability, ephemeral Docker sandboxes, and server-side controls for cost, execution time, and tool calls.

A practical demonstration will show Agent-Smith progressing from reconnaissance to a verified finding, reproducible proof of concept, remediation guidance, and code patch. Attendees will leave with concrete patterns for building capable agents without sacrificing isolation, observability, human oversight, or control.

“Never send a human to do a machine’s job.”

Speakers

Glenn ten Cate

Senior Cybersecurity trainer, The Linux Foundation

Glenn Ten Cate is a cybersecurity expert and trainer at the Linux Foundation with more than 20 years of experience as an ethical hacker, educator, and offensive security practitioner. He previously co-created and led the Security Knowledge Framework, an open-source flagship project... Read More →

Jorge Carvalho

Application Security Engineer, Nedap

Jorge Carvalho is an Application Security Engineer at Nedap with a passion for building secure software and exploring the security implications of emerging technologies. Much of his expertise has been developed through self-directed learning, hands-on research, and practical experience... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 13:15 - 13:40 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Building Reliable Agent Systems

14:50 CEST

Welcome Back - Angie Jones, Vice President of Developer Experience, The Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 14:50 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Speakers

Angie Jones

VP, DX, Agentic AI Foundation

Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 14:50 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

14:50 CEST

Keynote: Three Doors to One Tool: MCP vs WebMCP vs CLI - Frédéric Barthelet, CTO & Co-founder, Alpic & Dominic Farolino, Software Engineer, Google

Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 15:00 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

Agents can reach a tool through at least three doors today: an MCP server, a WebMCP browser page, or a plain CLI. They overlap, they compete, and the discourse around them runs hot. This talk cuts through it.

We map the three surfaces along the axes that actually matter: where the code runs (backend, browser, model context, shell), who holds state and auth, latency and trust boundaries, and how much UI context survives the handoff. Then we get practical: a decision framework for picking the right surface per use case, the cases where you genuinely want two stacked together, and the anti-patterns that appear when you pick wrong.

Speakers

Frédéric Barthelet

CTO & Co-founder, Alpic

Dominic Farolino

Software Engineer, Google

I work on agentic web platform APIs in Chrome!

Friday September 18, 2026 14:50 - 15:00 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

15:00 CEST

Keynote: Why Organizations Need an AI Control Plane for Security and Governance - Sheng Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, Obot AI

Friday September 18, 2026 15:00 - 15:10 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

How can organizations secure and govern AI agents they do not fully trust? MCP gateways can intercept and filter tool calls, but that alone is not enough. Organizations also need complete visibility into agent activity, consistent policy enforcement, and centralized control. In this talk, we explain how to move beyond MCP gateways and build an AI control plane for enterprise-wide security and governance.

Speakers

Sheng Liang

CEO, Obot AI

Sheng Liang is cofounder and CEO of Obot.ai. Previously, Sheng founded and served as CEO of successful open source software companies, including Rancher Labs and Cloud.com, and served in executive roles at SUSE and Citrix. He started as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, where... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 15:00 - 15:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

15:15 CEST

Keynote: MCP Made Local Models Viable - Rachel-Lee Nabors, Developer Experience, Arize

Friday September 18, 2026 15:15 - 15:25 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

By building agentic workflows that brick the moment they lose connectivity, we've circled back to the 1980s: the dumb terminal, the mainframe in someone else's building, intelligence rented by the minute. The first capable models were enormous, so we metered them by the token and shipped our context off-device. Tool bloat forced us to engineer economical harnesses: 50 tools can burn ~70k tokens, and selection quality collapses past a few dozen options. So we built progressive tool discovery, the wrapper pattern, retrieval, and routers that load only the tools a task needs. We engineered the problem down to something consumable by SAGE (Small And Good-Enough) models. On-device, free, private, these smaller models are increasingly capable of running agentic workflows and calling tools.

This talk covers the progress SLMs are making, efforts like DS4, and MCP client and server patterns built for the rise of local model adoption.

Speakers

Rachel-Lee Nabors

Developer Experience, Arize

Rachel-Lee Nabors spent the better part of their career on web standards and opensource and has spearheaded developer education at FAANG and startups, on the React Team as well as W3C. Now they work to usher in the Agentic Web with companies like Arcade.dev

Friday September 18, 2026 15:15 - 15:25 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Keynote Sessions

15:45 CEST

How We Reclaimed 20% of Engineering Capacity at Salesforce With AI Agents - Axel Uhlig, Salesforce

Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

We built and deployed an AI Agent at Salesforce designed to triage production alerts using service logs. After months of iteration, we achieved an accuracy level that earned the trust of our DevOps personnel. Today, the agent reclaims approximately 20% of weekly engineering capacity for the teams using it.

Here are our top 5 takeaways for building agents that perform consistently at high accuracy:
1. Specialization beats generalization: For high-accuracy tasks, purpose-built solutions outperform generic models every time.
2. Provide "Proof of Work": Make it effortless for humans to verify the agent's logic. Transparency builds trust.
3. Minimize friction: We used Slack as the primary interface. Don't require local setups to boost adoption and usage
4. Build in public: Operating in shared channels allows for seamless human-agent cooperation (and agent-to-agent orchestration).
5. Hosted > Local: Local scripts are great for individuals, but standardized, team-wide automation requires a hosted environment to scale.

Speakers

Axel Uhlig

Software Engineer, Salesforce

Software Engineer, mostly working on CI/CD systems using Bazel for C++ code bases.

Previously worked on the Bazel migration of BMW.

Currently working for Salesforce, supporting the Hyper Database team to ship their database as part of Tableau and other Salesforce products... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 15:45 - 16:10 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Enterprise Adoption in Practice

16:20 CEST

Gating High-Risk Agentic Actions at the Relying Party With Exogenous (Out-of-Band) Inputs - Dominic Forrest, iProov

Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

A Confused Deputy arises when a trusted system with legitimate authority is induced to use that authority for a high-risk or irreversible action that the Agent's principal did not intend, creating a relying-party (RP) risk of repudiation. The Agent may arrive with valid Tokens, passkeys, inherited session, or tool credentials, even if instructions have been shaped by prompt injection or model miscomprehension. Whilst the request is authenticated, human consent to the means taken is not.

This session develops how RPs can deploy a gatekeeper to distinguish authorised access from authorised actions and produce a legally auditable record. When proving the principal is present and consenting, it assumes that any signal produced by the agent or its device remains endogenous to the compromised context. This requires an exogenous proof that the agent cannot generate, evaluated by the RP before execution.

The talk presents a decentralised, open-source, relying-party pattern that does not require the agent or its operator to have onboarded to or used the scheme. It composes with OAuth, MCP, and passkeys, adding the missing intent boundary for agent-mediated workflows.

Speakers

Dominic Forrest

Chief Technology Officer, iProov

Dominic is responsible for iProov’s technology vision, strategy, and roadmap including the design and development of its cloud-based infrastructure.

Dominic has over 25 years of experience in senior roles in telecommunications and internet service providers. He joined iProov from mBlox Inc., where as Senior Vice President he oversaw the development and scalability of the platform seamlessly running over 6 billion transitions... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Level)

Building Reliable Agent Systems

16:55 CEST

Shipping a Production App in 10 Days: A Real Measurement of AI-Assisted Development - Julien Dubois, GitHub

Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST

Auditorium (Ground Level)

We've all seen the AI coding demos. But what does it really cost to ship a production application with an AI agent, and how much time does it actually save?

This talk answers that with hard numbers from a real, open-source project: BootUI ( https://github.com/jdubois/boot-ui ), a multi-module Java project with roughly 40 deeply-integrated feature panels, an embedded Vue 3 console, ~83,000 lines of code, ~116 test suites, and a full release pipeline. It was built through a tagged 1.0.0 release in about 10 calendar days by a single developer driving the GitHub Copilot coding agent, at a sustained pace of ~20 merged pull requests per day.

Using git history, PR metadata, and code metrics, we reconstruct two timelines: what the project actually took with AI (~80-110 hours of human effort), and a grounded estimate of what the same scope would take a senior developer by hand (~6.5-8.5 months).

You'll leave with a realistic mental model of where AI coding delivers 10x-plus leverage on Java projects, where it doesn't, and the practices that let you safely accept high agent throughput.

Speakers

Julien Dubois

Principal Manager, Developer Relations, GitHub

Julien Dubois is a Java Champion and Principal Manager at Microsoft, where he leads the Java Developer Relations team inside the CoreAI and GitHub organizations. With his team of world-class developer advocates, Julien works directly with the engineering groups to improve how Java... Read More →

Friday September 18, 2026 16:55 - 17:20 CEST
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Enterprise Adoption in Practice

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